The Political Life of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. ...

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1856 - Всего страниц: 510
 

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Стр. 410 - ... arms, not in the more fatal conflict of opinions. But I much fear that this country, (however earnestly she may endeavour to avoid it), could not, in such case, avoid seeing ranked under her banners all the restless and dissatisfied of any nation with which she might come in conflict. It is the contemplation of this new power in any future war, which excites my most anxious apprehension. It is one thing to have a giant's strength, but it would be another to use it like a giant.
Стр. 411 - The consequence of letting loose the passions at present chained and confined, would be to produce a scene of desolation which no man can contemplate without horror ; and I should not sleep easy on my couch, if I were conscious that I had contributed to precipitate it by a single moment.
Стр. 466 - He now produced two papers, which he represented as copies of what he had written to them, in which he assents to their proceeding and going on with the Bill, adding certainly in each, as he read them, very strong expressions of the pain and misery the proceedings gave him. It struck me at the time that I should, if I had been in office...
Стр. 436 - I owe it to you as the head of the administration, and to Mr. Peel as the leader of the House of Commons, to lose no time in affording you an opportunity of placing my office in other hands, as the only means in my power of preventing the injury to the King's service, which may ensue from the appearance of disunion in his Majesty's councils, however unfounded in reality, or however unimportant in itself, the question which has given rise to that appearance.
Стр. 411 - I have said) put up with almost any thing that did not touch national faith and national honour, rather than let slip the furies of war, the leash of which we hold in our hands — not knowing whom they may reach, or how far their ravages may be carried. Such is the love of peace which the British Government acknowledges ; and such the necessity for peace which the circumstances of the world inculcate.
Стр. 488 - Liberty' will then be all our own. We shall enter the field with the full assurance of victory - armed with the consciousness of having done justice, and...
Стр. 201 - That this court cannot refrain from adverting to an opinion strongly insisted on by some, that the Bank has only to reduce its issues to obtain a favourable turn in the exchanges, and a consequent influx of the precious metals : the court conceives it to be its duty to declare, that it is unable to discover any solid foundation for such a sentiment.
Стр. 354 - ... circumstances can an honest man endeavour to keep his country upon a line with the progress of political knowledge, and to adapt its course to the varying circumstances of the world. Such an attempt is branded as an indication of mischievous intentions, as evidence of a design to sap the foundations of the greatness of the country.
Стр. 489 - We have removed, with our hands, the seal from the vessel in which a mighty spirit was enclosed; but it will not, like the genius in the fable, return within its narrow confines, to gratify our curiosity, and enable us to cast it back into the obscurity from which we evoked it.
Стр. 467 - ... told his Majesty it was impossible to maintain that his assent had not been expressed, or to cure the evils which were consequential, — after the bill, in such circumstances, had been read a second time, and in the Lords' House with a majority of 105.

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